The USAID Partner Vetting Program wants specifics on who is receiving aid using their funds, but just in the West Bank and Gaza—for now. The proposal highlights the curious variability in the expectations of transparency—one organization advocating for vetting doesn't turn up in databases of registered nonprofit organizations.

The first of two federal trials accuses a former assistant treasurer of the diocese of conspiring with the CFO in an overpriced outsourcing arrangement for accounting and computer services that included kickbacks to the CFO. But when the CFO was found out, he went to work for the Columbus diocese. The defense claims that these arrangements were business as usual in Cleveland.

Defense lawyer argues for dismissal of an indictment relating to a million dollars said to have been diverted by a parish priest for the support of his secret family forty miles away from his parishes in rural Virginia.

The Archbishop and the priest that leads the city's Jesuit university find themselves in the headlines for their positions on fundraising and religion. And it's the Masons vs. the Catholics before the Missouri Supreme Court.